Ann Gargett

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Ann Elizabeth Gargett
CitizenshipCanadian [1]
Alma materUniversity of Manitoba, University of British Columbia
Scientific career
Thesis Internal waves in the Strait of Georgia  (1970)

Ann Gargett is a Canadian oceanographer known for her research on measuring turbulence and its impact on biological processes in marine ecosystems.

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Education and career

Gargett has B.Sc. in mathematics and physics from the University of Manitoba (1966) and Ph.D. in physics from the University of British Columbia (1970). [2] Subsequently she held a NATO postdoctoral fellowship at the National Institute of Oceanography (in the United Kingdom) and was a Green's Fellow at Scripps Institution of Oceanography. [3] She has held multiple positions at the Institute of Ocean Sciences and as of 2008 is an Emerita Senior Scientist. [4] In 2001, she joined Old Dominion University as a professor and transitioned into emerita professor in 2008. [4] She also an adjunct professor at Skidaway Institute of Oceanography. [4] Gargett currently is on the faculty at Semester at Sea and is a senior research scientist at the Canadian Institute of Ocean Sciences. [5]

Gargett was an invited plenary session speaker for the 1989 inaugural meeting of The Oceanography Society, [6] a speaker at the Munk Centennial Symposium in May 15, 2017, and gave the 2004 Rachel Carson lecture for the American Geophysical Union meeting. [7] [8]

Research

Gargett's research encompasses turbulence, [9] internal waves, [10] and the connections between mixing in the water column and biological processes. [11] Her research on turbulence levels in shallow waters [12] has identified Langmuir supercells, or large-scale Langmuir circulation, that cause extensive mixing of sediment in the coastal zone. [13] Working with biologists, [11] Gargett has examined how the vertical movement of phytoplankton in the water column impacts light availability. [14] She proposed the 'optimal stability window' which considered how the stability of the water column determines the relationship between fish abundance and the strength of the Aleutian Low. [15] [16] The link between physics and fish explored in this paper raised questions about gaps in marine science that should be addressed in order to further research linking fisheries with physical oceanography [17]

Selected publications

Awards

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References

  1. ↑ "Ann Gargett". 2010-08-12. Retrieved 2021-05-29.
  2. ↑ Gargett, Ann Elizabeth (1970). Internal waves in the Strait of Georgia (Thesis). doi:10.14288/1.0053314.
  3. ↑ "Green Scholars: Past and Present". Cecil H. and Ida M. Green Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics.
  4. 1 2 3 "Gargett CV" (PDF).
  5. ↑ "Ann Gargett". Semester at Sea. Retrieved 2021-05-31.
  6. ↑ Wilson, Stan; Brooks, Dave; Fine, Rana; Mooers, Chris (1989). "The Inaugural Meeting of The Oceanography Society". Oceanography. 2 (1): 40–42. doi: 10.5670/oceanog.1989.32 . ISSN   1042-8275. JSTOR   43924452.
  7. 1 2 "AGU Abstract Browser". abstractsearch.agu.org. Retrieved 2021-05-29.
  8. 1 2 "Rachel Carson Lecture | AGU". www.agu.org. Retrieved 2021-05-29.
  9. ↑ Gargett, A E (1989). "Ocean Turbulence". Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics. 21 (1): 419–451. Bibcode:1989AnRFM..21..419G. doi:10.1146/annurev.fl.21.010189.002223. ISSN   0066-4189.
  10. ↑ Gargett, Ann E.; Holloway, Greg (1984-02-01). "Dissipation and diffusion by internal wave breaking". Journal of Marine Research. 42 (1): 15–27. doi:10.1357/002224084788506158.
  11. 1 2 Denman, K L; Gargett, A E (1995). "Biological-Physical Interactions in the Upper Ocean: The Role of Vertical and Small Scale Transport Processes". Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics. 27 (1): 225–256. Bibcode:1995AnRFM..27..225D. doi:10.1146/annurev.fl.27.010195.001301. ISSN   0066-4189.
  12. ↑ Gargett, Ann E.; Wells, Judith R. (2007-04-10). "Langmuir turbulence in shallow water. Part 1. Observations". Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 576: 27–61. Bibcode:2007JFM...576...27G. doi:10.1017/S0022112006004575. ISSN   0022-1120. S2CID   121172284.
  13. ↑ Gargett, A. (2004-12-10). "Langmuir Supercells: A Mechanism for Sediment Resuspension and Transport in Shallow Seas". Science. 306 (5703): 1925–1928. Bibcode:2004Sci...306.1925G. doi:10.1126/science.1100849. ISSN   0036-8075. PMID   15591200. S2CID   31799722.
  14. ↑ Denman, K. L.; Gargett, A. E. (1983). "Time and space scales of vertical mixing and advection of phytoplankton in the upper ocean". Limnology and Oceanography. 28 (5): 801–815. Bibcode:1983LimOc..28..801D. doi:10.4319/lo.1983.28.5.0801. ISSN   1939-5590.
  15. ↑ Gargett, Ann E. (1997). "The optimal stability 'window': a mechanism underlying decadal fluctuations in North Pacific salmon stocks?". Fisheries Oceanography. 6 (2): 109–117. doi:10.1046/j.1365-2419.1997.00033.x. ISSN   1365-2419.
  16. ↑ Gargett, Ann E. (1997). "Physics to Fish: Interactions Between Physics and Biology on a Variety of Scales". Oceanography. 10 (3): 128–131. doi: 10.5670/oceanog.1997.05 . ISSN   1042-8275. JSTOR   43924818.
  17. ↑ Baumann, Michael (1998). "The fallacy of the missing middle: physics →…→ fisheries". Fisheries Oceanography. 7 (1): 63–65. doi:10.1046/j.1365-2419.1998.00048.x. ISSN   1365-2419.
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  22. ↑ "Meet our 2021 Honoured Science Alumni". February 3, 2021.
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